‘The Good Wife,’ Season 5, Episode 12, ‘We, the Juries’: TV Recap

As I’m writing this, “The Good Wife” has been passed over twice on the Golden Globes, as the meth makers of “Breaking Bad” sweep the awards.

But as Alicia and Will’s better halves sit schmoozing and drinking and looking fabulous in real life, here on the show, we’re stuck in purgatory. I agree with one of last week’s comments that The Good Wife seems to be leaving a lot of issues hanging.

Last week, Eli was surprised by a video of the voting fraud from the last election. Remember that from last season’s finale? It’s a bare memory.

This week, Alicia and Will are each fighting for a half of a couple for conspiring to deliver cocaine from Rio. Will is defending the woman, Alicia, the man. The judge decides to hold a double jury trial, one for each defendant. Cary wants to take first chair so Alicia doesn’t clash with Will.

Marilyn, the ethics lawyer, is upset and wants to question everyone about the voting video. Peter thinks it was Will who leaked the video.

Back in the double jury circus, it’s crazy town. Robyn suggests stealing another client away from L/G. Also, does Kalinda own any outfit that’s not leather? She apologizes to Cary who is all yeah yeah, and walks away.

What is she apologizing for – saying she’d come to the Cary/Alicia firm and lying about it? She later meets Cary at a bar and – while telling him she’s trustworthy – checks out a text message from Robyn on Cary’s phone about their taking a client. Which she immediately shares with Will. It turns out the whole text message was a trap and Kalinda fell right into it. Kalinda keeps hitting on Cary. I don’t like this at all.

Case summary: The couple accused of stealing the cocaine is a young hot blonde and an older dude. One side says the woman didn’t touch the bag with the cocaine. The other side says the guy was an unwitting mark.

Ethics issues: Eli says there’s a chance he told someone that they needed to do “whatever they could.” Marilyn says that could mean he ordered Moody to stuff the ballot box. Eli meets with the political guy and is all “I wasn’t here.”

Alicia says she doesn’t know anything about the video or the voting fraud. Then she goes storming into the governor’s office. She reminds Peter that Zack testified about those votes and he’s going to have to testify again. Alicia tells Peter to fix it. (note, are they back together in the same bed now? I can’t remember.)

Marilyn is now questioning Will and he says that all information is limited by attorney/client privilege. Will says he told Peter that the 30,000 votes were fraudulent and offered to show him the video. Peter refuses to wave attorney/client privilege.

Marilyn decides that she can’t draw a conclusion. Eli is not happy.

This court case is such a mess, it’s hard to summarize. They are now saying that the woman in the couple slept with someone else in the airline bathroom. And the jury members from the separate juries are talking to each other and that’s bad. Then they pin it on the flight attendant who was in rehab.

The woman’s jury finds her not guilty. He agrees to take four years in jail, with two years for good behavior. Mmm that’s not right.

Aaaargh, and the DVR cut off early. I’m sorry if I missed something. But seriously Good Wife, get it together. I’m tired of these overly complicated and meaningless court cases. I miss the personal storylines. Didn’t Diane get married? Is the judgeship completely off the table? What about Eli and America? Are Peter and Alicia back together?